they come in through egypt. >>eric: through the tunnels on the egypt and gaza border but the question, and this is just an assumption, israel would not agree to a cease-fire unless egypt was willing to cut off that armed supply, correct? >>guest: i think israel is subject to all sorts of extraordinary pressures and constraints precisely because of the diplomatic war that is effectively wages with the help of the u.n. you have the u.n. running rescue agency headquartered in gaza that is dedicated exclusively to palestinian revenues and it also effectively serves as a press center for the hamas leadership in gaza when this breaks out. what has happened, there is a ritual reciting bit u.n., the rockets should stop and they say, and israel must exercise complete restraint and they condemn trillion for what it is doing in its own defense. for months, the rockets were sitting israel and israel's ambassador to the u.n. was pleading with the u.n. security council to do something, month after month, hundreds and hundreds